Chasin' Freshies 2014 - Mosaic | Deschutes Brewery

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Tastes just as resinous and pungent but less citrusy. Instead there's a earthy and hopped up spice flavors. Mid-palate is a caramel-and vanilla-like smoothness and sweetness. 4.25

Alternately smooth and creamy and aggressive and spicy. It's a good mix of both worlds. The finish gives a bit of bitterness that combines with the spice and dry finish to linger pleasantly. The brew is medium-bodied and filling. 4.25

22oz bottle - damn, this makes me want to go skiing (ok, hot-tubbing in the mountains), and I barely ever do that in the first place!

This beer pours a clear, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and very bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some random Royal Tyrell museum-friendly lace around the glass as things genially subside.

The bubbles are pretty peppy in their equally spread out fizzy and frothy emanations, the body an adequate medium weight, and generally smooth, nothing particularly overt in its ingress. It all finishes off-dry, in a pleasant amalgam of stable grainy malt, and fresh citrusy and flora-based hoppiness.

It's a bit difficult to discern actual 'freshness' - especially when the good public are clamouring for it - without direct comparison to the exact opposite (which means what?). At any rate, this is a tasty, enjoyable, and sure, 'fresh-seeming' hop-forward affair, the Mosaic varietal displayed in all its valour, and thankfully keeping its inherent dankitude on the down-low.

Appearance - Pours slightly hazy and bright golden yellow in color with a white, finger width head that displays retention before settling to a thin, broken layer of surface suds. Chunks of lacing cling to the side of the glass with good stick.